Prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho's handling of the crisis has earned him support from voters, with polls showing him as the only main party leader whose approval rating increased since, and voters showing more support for his Social Democrat party after a long period of decline. CDS-PP, by comparison, has seen its ratings plummet.

ECB funding for Portuguese banks began in 2010 as they were frozen out of the financial markets, and peaked at €60.1bn in June 2012.